Betty Honey | Pearl Harbor, Air Raid Warden and Some Privations

Eighty-one years ago, on December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, precipitating World War II. The “Date that will live on in Infamy” caught many by surprise, as Betty Honey (1921 - 2010) relates in the excerpt from a 2003 interview with oral history curator Linsey Lee. Lives were changed in ways immense and minute, and the Vineyard and the world quickly mobilized to face the coming challenges. During the War Betty served as an air raid warden in Vineyard Haven and worked with the Island’s Rationing Board. She joined the Civil Service and worked as a clerical assistant at Dental Clinic 2 at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod. After the War she worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as an operating room secretary. Betty retired home to the Vineyard in 1996.
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